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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 58m

A local Halloween store did some great displays:

Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 10h

Brilliant, grim use of Blood Meridian, sir.

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 13h

Another example of China as electostate:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...
(Yes, it also burns coal. Yes, Tibet is an occupied country.)

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 13h

One of them.

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 16h

I appreciate any effort to try out metaphors for climate change.
Even this strained one -

Grist @grist.org · 1d

The ocean is a carbon toilet. Marine heat waves are clogging it.

Tiny poops are supposed to sink to the seafloor, locking away carbon. But scientists have found that warm spells are disrupting that flushing.

grist.org/climate/the-...

#Ocean #Climate #Heat #Science #Environment

The ocean is a carbon toilet. Marine heat waves are clogging it.

Tiny poops are supposed to sink to the seafloor, locking away carbon. But scientists have found that heat waves are disrupting that flushing.

grist.org

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 18h

Costume by costume, my dream of giant animal cosplay as anti-Trump resistance style is coming true.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Portland 🔥

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 18h

Agreed.
I think we missed an opportunity with John Woo, back in the 2000s.

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 18h

Bless those people who will donate lavishly to colleges and universities - for sports.

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 19h

California K-12 students are organizing a statewide call for fossil fuel companies to pay out for climate change damages they helped cause:

youthwalkout2025.org

Youth Walkout 2025 – Polluters Pay Youth Walkout 2025

youthwalkout2025.org

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 19h

Notes on what's going on in Chicago from a scholar there:
breakingculture.substack.com/p/ice-terror...

ICE Terrorists Active in North Chicago Today

They are snatching people off the street, given cover by an unregistered helicopter

breakingculture.substack.com

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 1d

Campus cuts, mergers, and closures: my August-September 2025 update.

bryanalexander.org/horizon-scan...

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 1d

Have any of you seen one of these signs in the world?

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 1d

OK, blog post draft done. Time to visit local historical house for its 200 year anniversary then check out a LARP for my gaming class.

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 1d

I'm waiting for Halloween costumes. At least of frogs and chickens.

Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 1d

You can't be... lily livered in the face of tyranny!

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 1d

Ray Milland and Sam Elliott!

Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 2d

I would like to see frog cosplay as political resistance become a thing.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 2d

I love this image.

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 2d

The US-China trade war ratcheted up in the past 24 hours:

truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 2d

I'd like that was well. Perhaps county level.

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 2d

MIT president Sally Kornbluth says no to Trump's proposed compact:

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 3d

Very interesting look at America's economy by individual states.
Note the distribution of states in/near recession vs growing vs treading water:

(Data from Moody's; map by @axios.com )

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 3d

@barackobama.bsky.social on Gaza, via Medium:

Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 3d

I'm very excited to mc ITHAKA's NextWave event this February:

www.eventbrite.com/e/the-next-w...

The Next Wave 2026

Join leaders across our community as we discuss the role of trust in the rapidly evolving higher education landscape.

www.eventbrite.com

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 4d

I'm not sure how they'll react when non-immigrants don't flock to the fields. Increasing automation will only go so far.

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 4d

Temperature here *fell* overnight. Now 48° F, when it was in the 80s yesterday afternoon.

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